In 1949 a neighbor was doing auto repair in his garage as a side along with farming and hauling milk. When I was putting the head back on my Chevy I thought I needed a tourqe wrench and ask Dad if he would buy one. He sent me to the neighbor to see if he would loan me his. The neighbor took me out to his garage and showed me an old ratchet and a pair of channel locks. He said that those had always been his torque wrench. When he had all the head bolts drawn down as tight as he could with the ratchet by hand he would pull on the ratchet with the channel locks until they lost its grip and slipped off. Said he had never lost a head gasket in all his years of auto repair. From that I got the idea that exact torque readings was not that important except in rare cases. Of course the auto and tractor engines of the time were lower compression engines. Drop your rocks folks as this is just a memory about torque wrenches from an old mans past Not Advise.
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